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Specially for individual customers and collectors, you're suggested to own a Museum Collection by famous artists for such oil painting classic. Biography - Diego Rivera - Mexican Muralist, Traditional Mexican Art, Flower Vendors, Merchants, Farmers and Peasants, Husband to Frida Kaho, Angeline Beloff Biography Diego Rivera (1886-1957) Diego Rivera was born in the city of Guanajuato, northwest of Mexico City in 1886. He went to Mexico City to study art at the San Carlos Academy in 1906 at the age of ten. When he was twenty he was awarded a scholarship to study in Europe, where he lived and worked for fifteen years. He returned to Mexico on a short visit in 1910-1911. In 1921 Rivera, after returning to Mexico, Rivera and several other artists traveled to the Yucatán to study Mayan ruins at Uxmal and Chichén Itzá. The next year he visited the Isthmus of Tehuantepec where he made sketches of indigenous people.

In 1923 Rivera was appointed head of the Department of Plastic Crafts at the Ministry of Education, a post he held until 1928. While in this position, he and his assistants painted 235 individual fresco panels covering 15,000 square feet. Sometimes Rivera was paid only the equivalent of two US dollars for his mural painting, and so he supplemented his income with easel painting. In November and December of 1927 Rivera traveled to the Soviet Union where he made sketches for a mural in the Red Army Club, which he never painted. Rivera was a long-term (though sometimes expelled) member of the Mexican Communist Party. In the early 1930s Rivera was invited to paint a number of important murals in the United States: in Detroit at the Institute of Fine Arts; in San Francisco at the Stock Exchange, Art Institute, and City College; in New York at the New School for Social Research and at Rockefeller Center . Controversy surrounded several of these commissions. Some San Franciscans took offense at how Rivera included himself in one of his murals. He painted himself on a scaffold with his back to viewers.

A much larger controversy arose when newspapers in New York City reported that Rivera was painting a Communist mural in Rockefeller Center. Even though there had been considerable negotiation about theme and subject matter, Rivera's inclusion of an image of Lenin in the painting came as a surprise to Rockefeller, who asked Rivera to replace the image with the face of someone unknown. After Rivera refused, Rockefeller would not allow Rivera to complete the mural and had it covered with canvas. Rockefeller paid Rivera's commission in full. In February 1934 he had the almost completed mural chipped from the wall. After Rivera returned to Mexico he repainted the mural, Man at the Crossroads , in the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City. In 1940 he returned to San Francisco to paint a mural at the San Francisco Golden Gate Exhibition . While in Europe, Diego Rivera married Russian artist, Angeline Beloff (1911 - 21). They had one child who died before reaching the age of two. He was married to his second wife, Guadalupe Marín, from 1922 -27. She was the mother of his two daughters.

He married, divorced, and remarried the Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo (1929-39 and 1940-54). After she died, in the last year of his life, he married his long-time dealer, Emma Hurtado. When Rivera was diagnosed with cancer in 1955, he is quoted as saying "What a damned bother!" and kept on painting. He died in Mexico City in 1957. Diego Rivera Biography (1886-1957) – Life of Mexican Artist Complete Works Diego Rivera was born on December 8, 1886 in Guanajuato, Mexico. At the age of two, his family had already set him up an art studio; he couldn’t even read. They moved to Mexico City in 1892. His mom descended from Jews that had converted to Roman Catholicism, and his dad descended from Spanish Royalty. At the age of ten, Diego took evening classes at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City. He enrolled in military college to impress his dad, but quit two weeks later.

In 1891, he became a full time student at the Academy of San Carlos, studying art. His dad was an inspector at the National Department of Public Health, and because he was well connected, he got his son a scholarship from Teodoro Dehasa, another artist for Diego. Dehasa sponsored him on a trip to Europe beginning in 1907, and ended up lasting 14 years. Rivera first traveled to Spain, and studied under a local artist, Chicharo for two years. He sent his art work home to justify the money that Dehasa was spending on him. He then went to Paris, and was fascinated by Cubism. From 1913-1918 he devoted himself to it. The only problem was, Diego hated the fact that the art could only be enjoyed by the rich; he thought everybody should be able to appreciate art. Photo by: Wikipedia Creative Commons In 1909, he met Angelina Belhoff, a Russian painter. She became his common law wife for the next 12 years. They ended up having a son, Diego, in 1916. They traveled Europe together, and participated in several shows.

Around 1918, he met Elie Fauve, who became his best friend throughout his life. Elie kindled Rivera’s love of murals, and convinced him to go study the masters. After 14 years of being in Europe, he returned home. He left Angelina and his son. During his time in Europe though, he had an affair with another Russian woman, Maria Vorobieff-Stebelska, and had a daughter Marika in 1918. He left them as well. Since Rivera was well known in his home town, Jose Vasconcelos, the new minister of Public Education asked him to paint a mural at the National Preparatory School in 1922. It was Diego’s first mural, and he called it Creation. It is a fresco with gold leaves, showing divine light shining down on people. This work was heavily influenced by Mayan art styles, for he had visited ruins right before he designed it. Photo by: Wikipedia Creative Commons That same year, he married Guadalupe Marin, with whom he had two girls, Ruth and Guadalupe.

Over the next four years, he painted 124 frescoes on the courtyard walls of the Ministry of Public Education. In 1927, Rivera went to Russia, as an official delegation of the Mexican Communist Party. When he got back, he divorced Guadalupe. He met Frida Kahlo the next year at a party he went to, and he married her in 1929. It was a very stormy relationship, for he cheated on her many times, and she cheated on him with the people he cheated on her with to get revenge. She couldn’t have children which upset Diego more, and the fact that she was an artist as well made him wary, for he didn’t want someone more famous than him. He was appointed head of the Department of Plastic Crafts at the Ministry of Education, which he held until 1938. Rivera also created the union of Technical Workers, Painters, and Sculptors in 1930, with buddies Jose Clemente Orozco and David Siqueiros. In November of 1930, he received his first commission from America which was at the Stock Exchange Club. He received a second soon after at the California School of Fine Arts.

After that, Nelson Rockefeller asked him to paint a mural at the Radio Corporations Arts building. Unfortunately, it was destroyed because it had Lenin on it, and America was anti-communist. Photo by: Wikipedia Creative Commons Leon Trotsky in Russia was a communist leader who was fighting for control over the U.S.S.R. with Stalin, and Stalin won. Trotsky knew his life was in danger, so he asked Diego if he could come to Mexico. The permission was granted, and Leon Trotsky and his wife lived with Rivera and Kahlo, until they got into a fight and moved out. In 1940, Frida and Diego were separated, divorced, and remarried within the same year. He was given a commission soon after at the Hotel de Prado, and he painted a mural with a phrase that said “God does not exist.” The mural was not shown for nine years. In July of 1954, Frida died, and Diego was deeply upset. Only after she died did he realize how much he loved her. The next year though, he married his art dealer, whom he had known since 1946. Diego had an operation soon after and she cared for him.

He died on November 24, 1957 and is buried at the Rotunda of Famous Men in the Civil Pantheon of Mourning. Leave a Reply Diego Rivera Introduction Diego María Rivera (1886-1957) is one of the most prominent Mexican artists of the twentieth century. He gained international acclaim as a leader of the Mexican mural movement that sought to bring art to the masses through large-scale works on public walls. In his murals of the 1920s and 1930s Rivera developed a new, modern imagery to express Mexican national identity, which featured stylized representations of the working classes and indigenous cultures and espoused revolutionary ideals. This exhibition highlights Rivera's early foray into cubism, a less known but profoundly important aspect of the artist's development, in which his interest in themes of nationalism and politics first emerges. Featuring twenty-one works created in France and Spain between 1913 and 1915, the selection celebrates the National Gallery's No. 9, Spanish Still Life, 1915, recently bequeathed by Katharine Graham.

During his time abroad, Rivera drew upon the radical innovations of cubism, inaugurated a few years earlier by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Rivera adopted their dramatic fracturing of form, use of multiple perspective points, and flattening of the picture plane, and also borrowed favorite cubist motifs, such as liqueur bottles, musical instruments, and painted wood grain. Yet Rivera's cubism is formally and thematically distinctive. Characterized by brighter colors and a larger scale than many early cubist pictures, his work also features highly textured surfaces executed in a variety of techniques. The paintings on view, produced during a period that coincided with both the Mexican Revolution and World War I, reflect Rivera's expatriate role and explore issues of national identity. Many incorporate souvenirs of Mexico from afar and are infused with revolutionary sympathy and nostalgia. But these references to his native land are often embedded within canvases that refer to new Spanish, French, or Russian allegiances. Images © 2004 Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Av. Cinco de Mayo No. 2, Col. Centro, Del. Cuauhtémoc 06059, México, D.F. No.

9, Nature Morte Espagnole, 1915, oil on canvas, Gift of Katharine Graham, 2002.19.1 1 of 13 Rivera's Early Life Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, in December 1886, and moved with his family to Mexico City in the early 1890s. Rivera's parents, both educators, were part of the Europeanized professional classes that emerged under the Porfiriato, the lengthy dictatorial regime of President Porfirio Díaz. His prodigious talent was recognized at an early age, and by twelve he was enrolled in the national school of fine arts. Upon completion of his degree, Rivera was awarded a governmental stipend to further his career in art by traveling to Europe. With these funds, he sailed for Spain in January 1907. Remaining in Madrid for more than two years, Rivera studied with the Spanish academic painter Eduardo Chicharro, while assiduously copying from the collections of the Museo del Prado, and over time becoming part of the city's bohemian avant-garde.

In 1909 Rivera embarked on an itinerary of art study in Europe that included visits to Paris, London, and Belgium. In Bruges he met the Russian painter Angelina Beloff, who soon became his companion and common-law wife, and together they moved to Paris. (The two remained a couple until Rivera departed for Mexico in 1921. He married the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo in 1929.) Rivera returned to Mexico for a one-man exhibition of his work that opened on November 20, 1910, a date notorious for its association with the start of the Mexican Revolution. Shortly after the December 20 close of his exhibition, Rivera again departed for Europe; it would be more than a decade--and following the end of the Revolution--before he returned to Mexico. Years later, embarrassed by his lack of revolutionary credentials, the artist claimed to have participated in the fighting, boasting that he had joined Emiliano Zapata's peasant forces and even plotted to kill President Díaz. In truth, Rivera and Beloff spent the next few years working in Spain and France, engaged with neither the strife in Mexico nor with the cubist revolution in art that had been initiated by Picasso and Braque.

As his close friend and the subject of Portrait of Martín Luis Guzmán would write, Rivera "arrived calmly and late" to cubism. Portrait of Martín Luis Guzmán, 1915, oil on canvas, Fundación Televisa, A.C. Mexico City 2 of 13 Montparnasse, Paris In fall of 1912 Rivera and Beloff established themselves in a studio in Montparnasse, at the heart of bohemian Paris. This left-bank district was rapidly becoming the axis of a cultural vanguard from around the world. There, as the poet Guillaume Apollinaire declared, you could "now find the real artists." Indeed, Picasso took a Montparnasse studio in October 1912, and Rivera's neighbors at 26, rue du Départ included the Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian. The avant-garde debates that fueled cubism proliferated in the cafés that Rivera began to frequent.

There he made acquaintances including French artists Robert Delaunay and Fernand Léger, Italian Amedeo Modigliani, Japanese painter Tsuguharu Foujita, Polish painter Leopold Gottlieb, Lithuanian painter Chaim Soutine, and the Russian Marc Chagall. Rivera's exposure to what Marcel Duchamp termed "the first really international colony of artists" soon began to inform his work, with Montparnasse--particularly his own studio there--as a prominent new motif. The commanding fall 1913 painting of fellow Mexican artist Adolfo Best Maugard with a view of the Gare Montparnasse from Rivera's studio can be considered as much an homage to his new home as a portrait of his friend. Maugard is pictured as a strikingly elegant figure, shown gesturing to the Great Ferris Wheel, which was built in 1900 for the Paris World's Fair. The wheel seems to rotate around Maugard's gloved hand; below the sweep of his coat follows the movement of a train rendered in a series of static planes.

In situating his friend as integrally related to and yet distanced from these emblems of Paris, Rivera offers a meditation on their common identity as expatriates--at once part of and removed from the place in which they live. The expression of geographical displacement and multiple allegiances would be enduring themes in Rivera's work of the period. Shortly before the portrait was executed, Maugard visited the Spanish city of Toledo with Rivera and wrote of their admiration of the works of El Greco there. He noted that the sixteenth-century master's influence was strongly felt in Rivera's recent paintings, "especially his series of women with water jugs and landscapes with dramatic skys." The Woman at the Well of later that year--with the expressive pathos of the woman, her simplified drapery, and the stylization of her weighty curving form (which rhymes with the jar and the well)--also subtly recalls El Greco. Painted in Paris, the work thus intimates Rivera's reminiscences of the Moorish-Gothic city.

(left) Retrato de Adolfo Best Maugard (Portrait of Adolfo Best Maugard), 1913, oil on canvas, Museo Nacional de Arte, CONACULTA, INBA, Mexico City (right) La mujer del pozo (The Woman at the Well), 1913, oil on canvas, Museo Nacional de Arte, CONACULTA, INBA, Mexico City. Verso of Paisaje Zapatista (Zapatista Landscape) 3 of 13 Sojourn to Spain In The Woman at the Well the artist incorporates a colorful bird form, suggestively Mesoamerican in appearance, which serves as a reminder of Mexico within this Spanish scene. This choice was perhaps influenced by his friend Maugard, who was documenting Mexican archaeological objects in Paris museums. The earthenware jugs, which became a favorite motif in Rivera's Toledan paintings, resemble ancient Mexican ones; for Rivera the similarity may have forged a resonant link between the Spanish city and his homeland. Memory operates as an underlying theme in other ways too: the woman and her water jar are rendered in sequential planes that suggest the passage of time.

This synthesis of seen and remembered elements suggests Rivera's absorption of the philosophies of Henri Bergson, which were popular among the avant-garde in the early twentieth century. According to Bergson, individual consciousness is a melding of sensory perception, memories of the past, and anticipation of the future. Thus, there is no objective reality, only subjective understanding filtered through our experiences. Rivera's interest in themes of memory and experience is revealed in his personal interpretation of cubism. By 1913 Rivera had fully embraced the pictorial language of cubism in canvases such as Still Life with Balalaika. Here the artist imbued familiar cubist motifs--a bottle and a musical instrument--with deeply personal resonance. The Spanish liqueur Anís del Mono, for example, alludes to Rivera's recent stay in Toledo. The distinctive faceted bottle also calls to mind the work of renowned Spaniards Picasso and fellow cubist Juan Gris, who similarly had included the Spanish liqueur bottle in their cubist works. Rivera's inclusion of a Russian balalaika evokes his Russian companion, Angelina Beloff, and their joint studio space where the three-stringed instruments were displayed, while the floral pattern is drawn from their studio curtains.

Still Life with Balalaika, 1913, oil on canvas, Bergen Kunstmuseum 4 of 13 Nationalism Rivera's relationship with Beloff, and her involvement with a circle of Russian anarchists, played a significant role in developing the artist's political and national consciousness. This burgeoning awareness was furthered by the deteriorating political situation in both Europe and Mexico. Many of the symbolic objects Rivera included in paintings of that time have nationalistic overtones. Serapes, the woven blankets worn by Mexican peasants, became a hallmark of the artist's cubist paintings. They were employed to powerful effect in the 1914 portrait of sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, where their vivid patterns vitalize the composition and cloak his Lithuanian friend in Rivera's Mexican identity. Yet Rivera often drew upon multiple references. In this portrait, he looks not only to traditional Mexican art, but also to the European avant-garde. The otherwise near-monochromatic palette and gridded compositional structure are profoundly redolent of work by Piet Mondrian, who had begun to include grid structures in his paintings of trees and other subjects.

In deliberately quoting his neighbor's formal devices, Rivera incorporates an evocative memento of their exchange of ideas and artistic experiences. Jacques Lipchitz (Portrait of a Young Man), 1914, oil on canvas, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, gift of T. Catesby Jones 5 of 13 In spring 1914 the Chilean painter Ortiz de Zárate arrived at Rivera's studio with the directive, "Picasso sent me to tell you that if you don't go to see him, he's coming to see you." Rivera had ornamented his studio walls with reproductions of the Spanish artist's works and referred to him as "mi maestro"; the two quickly became friends. A painting that may have been inspired by Rivera's studio visits is Sailor at Lunch, which recalls a cubist painting by Picasso of a similarly mustachioed student reading a newspaper. Like many cubist works executed on the eve of World War I, Sailor at Lunch reflects the rising tide of French nationalism.

Rivera's geometrized sailor--in the process of taking a drink at a wood-grain café table--wears a prominent cap with an oversized crimson pompom as part of his uniform, emblazoned with the word "patrie" (homeland). Rivera's reference to France and its navy undoubtedly alluded to his loyalty to that country. Yet the term "patrie" not only invokes French patriotism, but also poignantly recalls Rivera's own homeland, from which he was so far removed. Marino almorzando (Sailor at Lunch), 1914, oil on canvas, Collection Museo Casa Diego Rivera, CONACULTA, INBA. Instituto Estatal de la Cultura de Guanajuato 6 of 13 Return to Spain and Outbreak of World War I In the summer of 1914, as the European political situation was reaching a crisis point, Rivera, Beloff, Lipchitz, and several other artists and writers traveled to the Balearic Islands off the Spanish coast for a walking and sketching tour. While executing naturalistic landscapes, Rivera also, as he would write, "continued my experiments with Cubism.

I had attempted to achieve new textures and tactile effects by mixing substances like sand and sawdust in oils." These tangible surfaces illustrate Rivera's apparent pursuit of a Bergsonian premise: that experience is filtered through memory and sense perception, with the two interrelated. While Rivera and his friends were in Mallorca, the largest of the islands, their sojourn was dramatically interrupted by the news of the eruption of World War I. Rather than return immediately to France, Rivera and Beloff remained in neutral Spain, traveling to Barcelona and from there to Madrid. There Rivera became reacquainted with the Spanish writer Ramón Gómez de la Serna, as well as fellow Mexican expatriates, including the architect Jesús Acevedo and the writer Alfonso Reyes. Rivera also became a central figure of a larger, international artistic community transported from Montparnasse to Madrid, and he openly proclaimed his patriotism for France during the period. As Reyes wrote, "Rivera was all fired up for getting back to France and going to war." The artist later told of attempting to enlist several times, only to be rejected by the French army.

Though a notoriously unreliable narrator, Rivera may have in fact been truthful in his account, for he had flat feet and his weight, at times, exceeded three hundred pounds. The painted record of his patriotic fervor, a work entitled Eiffel Tower, was executed in Spain in November 1914. Rivera's innovative composition highlights the Eiffel Tower, merging its structure with the Great Wheel. The preeminent emblem of Paris, the tower was also an appropriate symbol for France during the conflict, as it functioned as a radio transmitter and flashed electric light in the blue, white, and red of the French tricolor. In Rivera's painting, these symbolic colors appear in the background at right and are repeated in a flag-like form just below the wheel and tower, which in contrast are rendered ghostly pale. The ethereal forms of these icons of Parisian modernity intimate Rivera's distance from the city. Characteristically, Rivera was not content with simply creating an homage to his adopted homeland, but added another banner on a building at lower right that echoes the Mexican national colors of green, white, and red.

Tour Eiffel (Eiffel Tower), 1914, oil on canvas, Private collection, courtesy of Mary-Anne Martin, Fine Art, New York 7 of 13 Rivera shared an interest in cultural nationalism with his boyhood friend Jesús T. Acevedo, whom the artist painted in early 1915. Acevedo--an architect and art critic in political exile in Madrid--discussed at length with Rivera the question of whether Mexican art could intrinsically communicate its identity. They were also committed to creating works that were both Mexican and modern, as is evident in The Architect (Jesús T. Acevedo), in which the subject is presented as both. Perhaps in reference to his subject's occupation, it is a study in precision, the overall trapezoidal structure of Acevedo's face and head itself constructed through a sequence of geometric forms. Here, Rivera subtly specifies the Mexicanidad of both sitter and artist through Acevedo's attire, composed from a palette based on the green, white, and red of the Mexican flag. The Architect (Jesús T.

Acevedo), 1915, oil on canvas, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, CONACULTA, INBA, Mexico City 8 of 13 Pictorial devices often repeat from one painting to the next, creating a close harmony of form between Rivera's portraits and still-life paintings. The representation of Acevedo neatly parallels perhaps the most complex of all Rivera's cubist still-lifes, No. 9, Spanish Still Life. In addition to the simulated wood-grain table and tiled floor, the paintings share a vortex of shifting planes, with solid, transparent, and ghost forms that whirl around a central element. In this case, the earthenware vessel receives particular emphasis: its heavily worked surface calls to mind not only the tangible presence of the jar but the substance of which it is made. Its form conjures Rivera's earlier Toledan representations of women with water jars, and it appears here as a distilled emblem of Spain. For Rivera, however, memories of place were not isolated.

Within this Spanish still life appear three long, pointed molinillos--a familiar Mexican utensil used to grind cacao beans and whip the traditional drink chocolate de agua, which was brought to Spain by the conquistadors in the sixteenth century. The inclusion of a domestic Mexican object within a Spanish still life serves as a reference to home from afar, as well as a reminder of the exportation of ancient Mexican customs to Spain. No. 9, Nature Morte Espagnole, 1915, oil on canvas, Gift of Katharine Graham, 2002.19.1 9 of 13 Paris During World War I When Rivera returned to Paris in late March 1915, he found a city radically changed by the onset of war. As Paris itself was only seventy-five miles from the front lines, the streets were routinely filled with soldiers, and those men not in uniform were met with curfews, suspicion, and in some cases, open hostility. The artistic community in Montparnasse had dispersed. Braque and Apollinaire were among the many artists now in the trenches, while others had decamped to neutral zones to avoid conscription.

Salons were suspended, numerous galleries were closed, and buyers were scarce. This was a period of great hardship for many of the artists who remained in the city, including Rivera and Beloff. Still Life (Mallorca) was produced in Paris in such a climate, from studies made during Rivera's trip to the Balearic Islands. This luminous work invokes memories of the halcyon days before the war began. The artist has employed sand to palpably suggest the dazzling Mallorcan beaches, particularly as the still-life composition is surrounded by brilliant blue sky and turquoise water. The indeterminate space, suggesting equally an interior scene and a landscape, was a novel pictorial device employed by Rivera in a number of works from this year, including Still Life with Gray Bowl.

(left) Still Life (Mallorca), 1915, oil on canvas, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, gift of Ferdinand Howald (right) Still Life with Gray Bowl, 1915, oil on canvas, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Austin, Texas, gift from His Excellency Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, President of the United Mexican States 10 of 13 Another tabletop still life executed in Paris that year, The Café Terrace, almost certainly designates La Rotonde, the café so renowned for its sunny terrace that it was nicknamed "Raspail beach," after the Parisian boulevard on which it was located. Its tables--which resembled this one--were consistently popular with artists, not least because its owner accepted paintings as payment for meals. The Café Terrace features a decanter filled with brilliant green liquid, suggesting absinthe, the potent liqueur that was prepared with water poured over sugar through a slotted spoon.

Though banned early in the twentieth century, it was famously consumed and depicted by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, and Picasso; here, it signifies the bohemian culture of Paris lost with the onset of war. A particularly prescient and jarring element underscores the wartime context--the pattern suggesting camouflage in the central swathe of the table. Camouflage, invented in the early days of World War I, was developed by artists, including avant-garde artists whom Rivera knew. This composition, pervaded by the colors green, white, and red, also bears witness to Rivera's primary allegiance to Mexico and reflects his concerns regarding the political climate there. An open cigar box on the right side of the composition contains a landscape in miniature and a label that reads "Benito Jua." The allusion is to Benito Juárez, the nineteenth-century indigenous revolutionary, reform leader, and first president of republican Mexico, who was a powerful symbol in relation to contemporary events.

La terrasse du café (The Café Terrace), 1915, oil on canvas, Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alfred Stieglitz Collection 11 of 13 Mexican Revolution Over the course of 1915, Rivera's comprehension of the dire situation in Mexico was significantly heightened by visits from Martín Luis Guzmán, a journalist who had spent a year with Pancho Villa's guerrilla army and was exiled in Spain. In Rivera's Portrait of Martín Luis Guzmán, painted in Paris that year, Mexican iconography is utilized to compelling effect. Rivera highlights the writer's Mexican identity, portraying him seated in an equipal (reed chair) and wearing a boldly colored Zacatecan serape. Yet Rivera adorned his friend in a matador's headdress and draped the serape over his arm like a cape, thus invoking bullfighting, synonymous with Spain. In so doing, the artist at once alludes to the new home Guzmán found there and engages a personal metaphor: Rivera wrote of Guzmán "plunging the knife into a bull," in reference to the writer's political activities and writings.

Portrait of Martín Luis Guzmán, 1915, oil on canvas, Fundación Televisa, A.C. Mexico City 12 of 13 Executed in the summer of 1915 at the height of the Mexican Revolution, Zapatista Landscape illustrates the increasing politicization of Rivera's work. The depicted objects (sombrero, serape, rifle, and cartridge belt), placed before the mountains of the Valley of Mexico, evoke the peasant revolution. This amalgamation of still-life and landscape genres is, above all, a symbolic portrait of Mexico. Indeed, its more specific title was acquired later. Rivera would state that his so-called "Mexican trophy" was "probably the most faithful expression of the Mexican mood that I have ever achieved." Though he ultimately produced nearly two hundred cubist works, Rivera would not duplicate the overt nationalism of Zapatista Landscape. Instead, his cubist style became increasingly austere and accordingly less political over the next several years. By 1918 Rivera had left Montparnasse and abandoned cubism altogether.

But his paintings of 1913 to 1915 remain an important legacy of both his singular approach to the idiom of cubism and the awakening of his political sensibility and emergent Mexican nationalism. The works function as records of the artist's exploration of the conjunction between history and personal experience. Following his return to Mexico in July 1921, he began producing work that attempted to define a new identity for the post-revolutionary nation.

He wrote of wanting to create an art that would "help the masses to a better social organization." Rivera would work toward that goal with his politically committed, public murals, though he later attested to the Mexicanidad that suffused his cubist art, stating "My cubist paintings are my most Mexican." Paisaje Zapatista (Zapatista Landscape), 1915, oil on canvas, Museo Nacional de Arte, CONACULTA, INBA, Mexico City 13 of 13 Arts Abroad; Frida Kahlo Introduces Her Husband, Diego Rivera - The New York Times The New York Times Arts |Arts Abroad; Frida Kahlo Introduces Her Husband, Diego Rivera Search Continue reading the main story Correction Appended During her lifetime and for a good 25 years after her death in 1954, Frida Kahlo seemed to owe much of her renown as a painter to the fact that she was married to Diego Rivera, the colossus of Mexican muralism. Not that Rivera did not himself proclaim her a great artist in her own right. It is just that for decades the shadow of Rivera's painting, personality and politics served to dim most other Mexican lights.

But by the early 1980's, the Socialist Realism of Rivera's vast historical and revolutionary murals had begun to look outdated. Coincidentally, Kahlo was being rediscovered as an artist whose unflinching portrayal of her own physical and emotional pain spoke not only to a new generation of feminists but also to an era more concerned with feeling than ideology. Today, at least outside Mexico, Diego has become Frida's husband. One motivation for ''Diego Rivera -- Frida Kahlo,'' an intriguing show that runs through Sept. 30 at the Musee Maillol in Paris, is therefore to introduce Rivera to a European public that is barely aware of him. (The exhibition was seen earlier this year at the Fondation Glanadda in Martigny, Switzerland.) Another is to bring the artists together, almost for the first time, so that their work can be compared and their turbulent lives revisited. With 80 paintings and drawings by Rivera and some 50 paintings by Kahlo, it is not a complete double retrospective because it lacks many of Kahlo's best-known self-portraits as well as some of Rivera's most haunting oils.

And Rivera's greatest legacy, his murals at the National Palace and other public buildings in Mexico, cannot travel. But the show nonetheless conveys a clear message: Kahlo looked to Rivera as her maestro, but she followed him more as a man than as a painter. Continue reading the main story As it happens, Rivera, 20 years her senior, always encouraged her to go her own way. In an essay in the catalogue, Raquel Tibol, a well-known Mexican art critic, recalled what Kahlo told her in 1953: ''Evoking the episode of Diego observing her early work, she remembered his comments. 'Your will must lead to your personal style of expression.' And she added, 'Then I began to paint things which pleased him. I followed his painting for only a short time.' '' Advertisement Continue reading the main story Yet the cover of the catalogue and the poster for the show underline how, emotionally, Kahlo never escaped Rivera. They reproduce ''Diego and I'' (1949), a self-portrait of Kahlo in which she painted Rivera's portrait on her forehead, with a third eye on his own forehead. And it is only one of many paintings in which Rivera appeared.

In contrast, while Rivera included Kahlo in several murals, he did only one portrait of her, a 1930 lithograph of her sitting naked on a bed. Rivera seemingly had no need for a muse. Although he is best remembered for his portrayals of heroic Mexican peasants and workers combating conquistadors, Roman Catholic priests and plutocrats through the ages, he in fact spent the entire 1910-1917 Mexican Revolution outside Mexico, honing his skills as a post-Impressionist and as a Cubist in Paris between 1909 and 1921. The Musee Maillol throws light on this little-known Rivera by including 20 paintings from this period. When he returned to Mexico, though, he quickly rediscovered his roots. ''My style was born, as children are born, in an instant, except that this birth came after a painful 35-year pregnancy,'' he later wrote.

Certainly, by the time the tall, overweight Rivera married the petite, dark-eyed 22-year-old Kahlo in 1929, he had both his own style and a strong political agenda and, along with David Alfaro Siqueiros and Jose Clemente Orozco, he was defining post-revolutionary Mexican art. Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Invalid email address. Please re-enter. You must select a newsletter to subscribe to. Sign Up Privacy Policy Thus, while Rivera's art looked outward, Kahlo's looked inward, reliving the terrible traffic accident that shattered her body in her late teens, recording the pain of her 30 operations, her abortions, miscarriage and inability to bear children, painting her sorrow at Rivera's frequent betrayals (even though she too had many lovers, the exiled Trotsky among them, it is said). Emotionally, though, Rivera needed Kahlo: after they divorced in late 1939, he persuaded her to return, and they remarried 18 months later. Where their artistic paths crossed was in Mexico itself.

Convinced by now of the virtues of Mexico's Indian past, Rivera encouraged Kahlo to wear the traditional embroidered dresses and hair ribbons of the Tehuanas, the matriarchal Indian tribe of the Tehuantepec isthmus. She was in turn inspired by the colors and forms of Mexican folk art and the tiny religious metal plaques known as ex-votos, albeit replacing religious images with symbolic objects. If this was often the form of her work, however, the content was largely autobiographical. ''If I paint myself, it is because it is the subject I know the best,'' she once explained. The first self-portrait in this show has her standing on the United States-Mexican border in 1932, dressed in a pink dress, holding a Mexican flag and surrounded by symbols contrasting ancient rural Mexico with industrial urban America. But soon the self-portraits become ever more intimate, ever more fixated with her broken body, as in ''The Henry Ford Hospital'' (1932), where she lies naked in a pool of blood on a hospital bed, attached by veins to an embryo and other symbols.

In ''My Wet Nurse and I'' (1937), a baby's body with Kahlo's head is breast-fed by a dark-faced Indian woman representing Mexico's roots. Perhaps most despairing is ''Without Hope'' (1945), where she is again bedridden, with a macabre fountain of animals, fish and a skull spewing from her mouth. When Andre Breton visited Mexico in 1937, he promptly claimed her for Surrealism, but she would have nothing of it. ''They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't,'' she said. ''I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.'' In another essay in the catalogue, Christina Burrus, the show's curator, records a still more mischievous observation by Kahlo. ''The problem with Mr. Breton is that he takes himself too seriously,'' she offered. Still, Rivera understood that her Mexican art would have universal appeal. In 1953, one year before Kahlo's death, four years before his own, when he was well enshrined as Mexico's greatest living painter, he gave an interview to Ms. Tibol, which she quotes in the catalogue.

''Frida Kahlo is the greatest Mexican painter,'' he said. ''Her work is destined to be multiplied by reproductions and will speak, thanks to books, to the whole world. It is one of the most formidable artistic documents and most intense testimonies on human truth of our time.'' ''Moreover,'' he went on, as if anticipating that Kahlo would one day become a feminist icon, ''it is the first time in the history of art that a woman has expressed with absolutely disincarnate and, we could say, quietly ferocious frankness these general and specific facts which affect women exclusively.'' Correction: July 10, 1998, Friday Because of a production error, a picture caption was omitted on Wednesday with an Arts Abroad article about an exhibition of works by the Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and her husband, Diego Rivera, at the Musee Maillol in Paris. The painting on the left was a 1938 self-portrait by Kahlo; the one on the right, a detail of a 1949 self-portrait by Rivera.

Diego Rivera | Diego Rivera Web Museum DIEGO RIVERA – December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957 Full name: Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez Born: December 8, 1886, Guanajuato City, Guanajuato, Mexico. Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter and muralist born in Guanajuato City, Guanajuato. Studied painting in Mexico before going to Europe in 1907. While in Europe he took up cubism and had exhibitions in Paris and Madrid in 1913; he then had a show in New York City in 1916. In 1921 he returned to Mexico, where he undertook government-sponsored murals that reflected his communist politics in historical contexts. He married Frida Kahlo in 1929, and their tempestuous marriage got to be as famous as their art. In the 1930s and ’40s Rivera worked in the United States and Mexico, and many of his paintings drew controversy.

His 1933 mural for the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan featured a portrait of Communist Party leader Lenin, the resulting uproar led to his dismissal and to the mural’s official destruction in 1934. Similarly, a 1948 mural for the Hotel de Prado in Mexico that included the words “God does not exist” was covered and held from public view for nine years. His personal life was as dramatic as his artwork. In 1929, he married Kahlo who was roughly 20 years younger. The two had a passionate, but stormy relationship, divorcing once in 1939 only to remarry later. She died in 1954. He then married Emma Hurtado, his art dealer. Rivera died of heart failure on November 24, 1957, in Mexico City, Mexico.

Rivera’s talent for historical murals and his tributes to earthy folk traditions made him one of the most influential artists in the Americas and one of Mexico’s most beloved painters Follow Diego Rivera 1000+ images about Artist - Frida Kahlo (wife of Diego Rivera) on Pinterest | Mexico city, Mexican artists and Portrait Pinterest • The world’s catalog of ideas Artist - Frida Kahlo (wife of Diego Rivera) 102 Pins592 Followers

Question: Which painter was married to Mexican artist Diego Rivera?
Answer: Frida Kahlo